When Judith Diane Garner was born on 14 October 1942, in Longview, Gregg, Texas, United States, her father, Ellis Rade Garner, was 31 and her mother, Mary Louise Kirkpatrick, was 26. She died on 15 September 1996, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Grand Saline, Van Zandt, Texas, United States.
English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
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